Studies confirm: If you massage your head ten minutes a day, you will improve the work of the heart and adjust the blood pressure!

Massage is the process of pressing, rubbing and manipulating the skin, tissues, ligaments and muscles of the body.

Massage therapy uses this process to help manage health and physical and mental health conditions.

It is considered part of alternative medicine and is recommended as an adjunct to other healing treatments.

This therapy is easy to apply and all you need for its application is the chair. You can go to a professional massage therapist, but you can also do it yourself, Telegrafi reports.

It is applied directly in this way:

The therapist begins by squeezing the shoulders and neck before running his fingers through the hair. Make slapping movements from the top of the head down, around the entire head. After the head, neck and shoulders, the face and ears are also massaged.

It is desirable to relax 10 minutes after the end of the massage.

The health benefits of scalp massage are as follows:

The study aimed to study the effects of head massage therapy on the health of the cardiovascular system.

They have decided to investigate how the application of head massage can affect the activity of the autoimmune system of the heart, by measuring the heart rate variability parameters.

The researchers gathered 10 participants, six men and four women, and conducted the study.

The results have been promising. Head massage lowered participants' heart rates more than threefold compared to those who did not undergo massage therapy.

The study concluded that head massage has potential benefits for the autonomic nervous system of the heart, which is shown to increase overall variability and shift toward parasympathetic nervous system activity. /Telegraph/